Show MARBLE AND SLATE ARE FUNERAL the spokane land office has haa received a decision from the secretary of the interior in the appealed case of charles ff vs northern pacific railway company the action involves a valuable tract of land in stevens county near valley and addy which the railway company selected as indemnity land the secretary says marble and slate are mineral substances and as such their existence in land in quantity and quality sufficient to render the land more valuable on that account than for agricultural purposes make such land mineral land within the meaning of mineral laws and within mithu a the meaning of the excepting clause of the grant to the northern pacific railway company and therefore not subject to indemnity selection on account of said grant seattle post when writing to advertisers please mention the mining laining review |